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0:00So Harry's own people just confirmed he
0:03knew every word his uncle had written
0:04about their mother's funeral before a
0:06single page hit the printers and that he
0:09discussed it with Charles Spencer at
0:11Althorp in July. Standing a few hundred
0:13yards from Diana's grave with Megan and
0:16the kids beside him. And the second that
0:18admission reached Clarence's house on
0:20Thursday morning, the palace stopped
0:22treating this memoir as just another
0:24book from a grieving brother and started
0:27treating it as what it actually is, a
0:28coordinated family operation with a
0:31start date, a delivery date, and a
0:34landing date that happens to line up
0:36perfectly with the Sussex's moving back
0:38to Britain. And Harry's little walk
0:39around the island at All Thorp while
0:41that chapter about the coffin was being
0:43finished in the house behind him just
0:46cost him the one thing he desperately
0:48needed this autumn, which was the
0:50benefit of the doubt. Because the palace
0:52didn't answer his uncle with a statement
0:54about grief and memory. They answered
0:56with a dossier. And the most damaging
0:59page in that dossier isn't in the king's
1:01handwriting. It's in Earl Spencer's own
1:03handwriting [music] from decades before
1:05this book was ever conceived. Before we
1:07get into all of it, the dossier, the
1:091996 letter, the closed door meeting at
1:12Clarence House that changed everything,
1:14hit subscribe real quick so you don't
1:16miss our weekly deep dives where we
1:18actually look at the receipts. We break
1:20down the real power moves behind the
1:22palace gates every single week. And this
1:24week, the paperwork was written by the
1:26very man who's now selling a completely
1:28different story. All right, let's start
1:29where this story actually begins because
1:32here's the part that genuinely gets
1:34wild. The whole country spent Wednesday
1:36night arguing about whether Charles said
1:38five words in a telephone call 29 years
1:41ago, whether the palace was right to
1:42respond, what fraternal grief really
1:45means. And every single minute of that
1:47argument was time spent looking at the
1:50wrong document. Because the man who
1:52wrote this memoir had already written
1:54the answer to his own claims twice in
1:57his own name. And both times he wrote it
1:59before there was a book to sell. The
2:01first time was September 1997, the week
2:03of the funeral itself, when Charles
2:05Spencer put out a public statement
2:07saying there had been no clash with the
2:09palace over the arrangements, that he
2:11and the Lord Chamberlain's office had
2:13agreed everything up to and including
2:15the service at Westminster Abbey
2:17amicably, his word. amicably. The second
2:20time was April 1996,
2:2316 months before his sister died in a
2:25letter to Diana that became public years
2:27later, in which he told her that their
2:29relationship was the weakest he had with
2:31any of his sisters, that he had become a
2:33peripheral part of her life and a good
2:35deal worse than that. Those two
2:37documents exist. They are not disputed.
2:40And on the Sunday before the
2:42serialization, according to multiple
2:44sources, they were lying side by side on
2:46a table at Clarence House in a buff
2:49folder in front of the Princess Royal.
2:51Not the king. The king was in Scotland
2:53preparing to talk about artificial
2:55intelligence at Dumprey's house. And he
2:57had spent the previous four days wanting
2:59to say absolutely nothing about his
3:01former brother-in-law. Anne did not
3:04share that instinct. She never has. She
3:06sat down at half three on Sunday
3:08afternoon with the Lord Chamberlain, the
3:10king's private secretary, and the
3:12household architect, and she asked one
3:15question, whether the family needed to
3:17say anything that Charles Spencer had
3:19not already said himself. And by 6:00,
3:22the answer was in three pages. Page one,
3:24the claim. Page two, the Earl's own
3:28words from 1997 and 1996. Page three,
3:32the summer of 2026, the date the
3:35manuscript was delivered, the date the
3:37Sussex's announced their return, and a
3:39visit to Althorp in July. That closed
3:42door meeting is the reason the palace
3:44statement on Wednesday night was one
3:46sentence long. The statement wasn't the
3:48answer. The statement was the cover of
3:50the folder. The answer is inside, and
3:52it's been held back on Ant's instruction
3:54for one reason only. It's to be used the
3:57moment anyone from the Sussex side
3:59speaks publicly in support of the book.
4:01So when the Duke's people confirmed on
4:03Thursday morning that he had known and
4:05had discussed it at Althorp, they didn't
4:08defend him. They tripped the wire. The
4:11villain of this story isn't Charles
4:12Spencer and it isn't the king. The
4:15person who turned a memoir into a crisis
4:17is the nephew who chose to be a witness
4:19in it. Think about what that actually
4:21means for a second. You have to go back
4:23to April 1996. Diana was still the
4:26Princess of Wales. The divorce was 4
4:29months away and her brother wrote her a
4:31letter from Althorp. It was not a warm
4:33letter. He told her that after years of
4:36neglect on both sides, their
4:38relationship was the weakest he had with
4:40any of his sisters, that he was a
4:42peripheral part of her life, and he used
4:45words about her character that no
4:46brother writes to a sister he expects to
4:48see at Christmas. That letter became
4:50public in 2012. It's been in the record
4:53for 14 years. And three years earlier
4:56when uh Diana had asked her brother for
4:58a house on the allorp estate, a place to
5:00go with the boys away from the cameras,
5:02the answer had been no. That's the state
5:04of the relationship in the last summer
5:06of her life. A refused house, a letter
5:09she never answered and silence. Sunday
5:12the 31st of August 1997, Paris. By the
5:16afternoon, Charles was on a BAE 146 of
5:19the Royal Squadron with Diana's sisters.
5:22And at 7:00 that evening, the aircraft
5:24landed at RAF Northalt with her coffin
5:27on board, draped in the Royal Standard
5:29because the Prince of Wales had insisted
5:32that the mother of the future king come
5:34home as a member of the royal family and
5:35not as a private citizen. The man who 6
5:38days later is supposed to have hissed
5:40that she would soon be forgotten had
5:42spent that Sunday making sure that she
5:44could not be the first week of September
5:471997.
5:49This is the week of the telephone call.
5:50The book describes a senior aid to the
5:53queen told the Earl that William and
5:55Harry would walk in the procession. The
5:57Earl said it wouldn't happen. The prince
5:59rang and the book says he cited Lord
6:01Mountbatton's funeral in 1979. And the
6:04Earl said he had been 30 then and the
6:06boys were 15 and 12, 9 days short of 13.
6:09What the book doesn't say is that the
6:11boy walking beside them, Prince Phillip,
6:14had done the same walk in Dharmmstat in
6:161937 at 16 behind his own sister's
6:20coffin. And that Philip's answer to
6:22William when the boy wavered was that if
6:25he walked, his grandfather would walk
6:26beside him whatever was or wasn't said
6:29on that telephone call. The walk
6:31happened and it happened with four men
6:33and a boy of 12 in a line down the mall.
6:36Saturday the 6th of September, 1997.
6:39Westminster Abbey. The Earl delivered
6:41the eulogy 6 feet from the family and
6:44within days he put out a statement of
6:46his own to the press in his own words
6:48saying there had been no clash with the
6:50palace or with the prince that he and
6:52the Lord Chamberlain's office had agreed
6:54all the arrangements up to and including
6:57the service amicably. Amicably hold on
7:00to that word because it's going to
7:03matter more than anything the king is
7:04supposed to have said. July 2026,
7:08Althorp Harry brought Megan and the two
7:10children to the estate to visit his
7:12mother's grave on the island in the
7:14lake. The first time the children had
7:15been there, word from Monteceto claimed
7:18it was a private family visit [music]
7:20and nothing more. And in the same month,
7:22in the same house, a manuscript called
7:25Swansong was being finished for delivery
7:27to a London publisher with a chapter
7:30about the funeral procession in it that
7:32says in substance what Harry has been
7:34saying since 2021. The uncle and the
7:37nephew discussed the book. The Duke's
7:39own people confirmed that on Thursday,
7:41nobody at Althorp was surprised by what
7:43was in it. Nobody in the Cotswalds was
7:45going to be surprised either. August
7:482026, the Sussex's announced their
7:51extended return to Britain, a house in
7:53the Cotswalds, schools, a diary for the
7:56autumn. Monday the 8th of September
7:582026, the Lord Chamberlain's letter went
8:01to every Lord lieutenant in the country
8:03on the king's direction. Non-
8:05workinging, no titles in use, charity,
8:07private, security or matter for the
8:09police, funding requests to the palace.
8:11The same office that in 1997 the Earl
8:14says he dealt with amicably was now
8:17writing to the country about the Earl's
8:19nephew. Tuesday the 9th of September. A
8:22bound proof of the book reached Clarence
8:24House by Courier at 11:00 in the
8:26morning. The private secretary read the
8:28chapter, marked it, and carried it to
8:30the king who read it that evening and
8:31put it down without a word. For three
8:33days, the soft Charles, the man who
8:36didn't want to answer, Sunday the 14th
8:38of September, half three in the
8:40afternoon, Anne arrived at Clarence
8:42House in her own car from Gatkham Park,
8:45a drive of a little over 2 hours and sat
8:48down with Lord Chamberlain, the private
8:50secretary, and the household archavist.
8:52There was no press office in the room.
8:54There was no outside lawyer. Nobody from
8:56Kensington Palace had been asked, and
8:58nobody from Kensington Palace needed to
9:00be. Those who know the Princess Royal
9:03describe a woman who doesn't argue with
9:04a book. She checks it. By six o'clock,
9:07the archivist had brought up the Earl's
9:10September 1997 statement and the April
9:131996 letter, and Anne had placed them
9:16without flinching on the second page of
9:18a three-page dossier beneath the book's
9:21own claim and had written one
9:22instruction across the top of page three
9:25held. Wednesday the 16th of September, 6
9:28in the evening, the serialization
9:30preview went out before the late
9:32bulletins, the palace answered with a
9:35single sentence about fraternal grief
9:37and memory. one sentence, the cover of
9:39the folder. Thursday the 17th of
9:42September at 8 in the morning, a source
9:44close to the king added that the remark
9:46was not in his nature, that in 1997 he
9:49had been paralyzed by grief, that he had
9:52insisted on a full ceremonial funeral,
9:54and on the royal standard within the
9:56hour, a former senior aid to Charles
9:59said on the radio that in the summer of
10:012017, the 20th anniversary, the prince
10:04had been emphatic that Diana's memory
10:06was to be respected and never undermined
10:08whatever was said about him. [music]
10:10Then at midday, the Sussex side
10:12confirmed that Harry had known what was
10:14in the book and had discussed it with
10:16his uncle at Oorp. And that afternoon,
10:19the Earl posted a photograph of a
10:21peacock. At 7 in the evening, Harry
10:24walked into the Old Royal Naval College
10:26in Greenwich alone. The king was at
10:28Dumpryy's house. William and Catherine
10:30were on the aisle of but in the rain.
10:33Anne was on Canic Chase. Sophie was on
10:36the Zambesy and page three of the
10:38dossier on Anne's instruction was no
10:40longer held. Tuesday the 22nd of
10:43September, the book goes on sale in
10:45London and New York. Now, the official
10:47version from the Cotswwells. The July
10:50visit was a private family trip to a
10:52grave. The Duke has not read the full
10:54book. He is not involved in its
10:56publication and has no comment on its
10:58contents. Anyone who has ever sat at a
11:01family table in the month a book about
11:03that family was being finished upstairs
11:05knows that is absolute nonsense. You
11:08don't have to read a book to know what's
11:09in it when the author is pouring your
11:11tea. Now, here's what makes this even
11:13more significant. We're not talking
11:15about a memoir. We're talking about who
11:17gets to be a witness to the crown's
11:19history and what happens to a member of
11:21that family who chooses to be a witness
11:23against it. And there are four things
11:25you need to understand about how the
11:27institution handles that because none of
11:29them is about feelings. Number one, the
11:32record. The royal household keeps
11:34everything. Every public statement
11:36issued in the sovereign's name, every
11:39letter that touches the sovereign's
11:40family, every arrangement made by the
11:43Lord Chamberlain's office. And that
11:45office has existed in one form or
11:47another since the 14th century. When the
11:49Earl said in 1997 that the funeral had
11:52been agreed amicably with that office,
11:54the office wrote it down. When his 1996
11:57letter surfaced in 2012, the archavist
12:00filed it. The institution doesn't need
12:02to remember what a man said 30 years ago
12:05because it never forgot. That's the
12:07first thing the Sussex has never
12:09understood about the family they left.
12:11It has a longer memory than any
12:14publisher. Number two, the precedent of
12:16silence. The crown doesn't comment on
12:19books as a matter of principle. And this
12:21week, the palace said so in the same
12:23breath as it answered one. It said one
12:25line after the March 2021 interview
12:28about recollections varying and nothing
12:30at all after spare in January 2023. A
12:34former private secretary once put it
12:36this way. The household answers a book
12:38only when the book puts words in the
12:40sovereign's mouth because then the book
12:42is no longer about the family. It's
12:44about the head of state. That's the line
12:47that was crossed on Wednesday night.
12:48Five words in quotation marks attributed
12:51to the king. The moment those marks went
12:53round those words, the Lord
12:54Chamberlain's office had zero
12:56discretion. A claim about the
12:58sovereign's own speech must be answered
13:00on the record once. Number three, the
13:03office that carries the can. It's not
13:05the king who chooses the words of a
13:07palace statement, and it's not the
13:09queen. It's the private secretary who
13:11drafts, and the Lord Chamberlain who
13:13signs off anything that touches
13:15ceremony. And if the words are wrong,
13:17it's the private secretary who carries
13:18the can. So when Anne wanted the
13:21statement kept to one sentence and the
13:23dossier kept in the folder, she didn't
13:25need to persuade her brother. She needed
13:27to persuade the two men whose names were
13:29on it. And they agreed for a very simple
13:31reason. A sentence about grief cannot be
13:34disproved, and a dossier of the Earl's
13:37own words cannot be argued with. Release
13:39the first, hold the second, and the
13:41institution is answered without ever
13:43raising its voice. Number four, the 2020
13:46settlement. The agreement made at
13:48Sandringham in January 2020 is what the
13:51Lord Chamberlain's letter of the 8th of
13:53September restated. The Sussex's do not
13:55represent the sovereign, do not use
13:57their styles, do not receive public
13:59money for royal work. But there's a
14:01clause nobody ever writes about because
14:03it's not written down anywhere. It's
14:05that a non-working member of the family
14:07remains a member of the family and a
14:10member of the family does not give
14:11evidence against it. Harry has spent six
14:14full years testing that clause in a
14:18television interview in a book of his
14:20own in court over his security. This
14:22week he tested it at Althorp and the
14:25institution reached for the one thing it
14:27had never used against him, the paper.
14:30Put yourself in an ordinary family for a
14:32second and uncle writes a book about the
14:34worst week in your family's history and
14:36it accuses your father. Your brother
14:39went to the uncle's house in July, sat
14:41at his table, knew what was coming, and
14:44said nothing to your father. And then
14:46when the book comes out, your brother's
14:47people confirm that yes, he knew, and
14:49yes, they discussed it. In an ordinary
14:51family, that's the end of Sunday lunch
14:53for a decade. In this family, it's the
14:55end of something more precise. It's the
14:57end of the possibility that Harry is
14:59ever again treated as a son who was
15:01caught in the middle. From Thursday,
15:03he's a party. And the crown doesn't
15:05negotiate with parties. It files them.
15:07So, let's open the dossier because
15:09that's the word the household used for
15:11it, not memo. And the distinction
15:14matters. A memo is written. A dossier is
15:17assembled. It's three sheets of cream
15:19paper in a buff folder, the same kind of
15:22folder that has sat on the private
15:24secretar's desk since before the king
15:26was born. And it was put together on the
15:28afternoon of Sunday the 14th at Clarence
15:30House between 3 and 6 by4 people. It
15:34went to Burke Hall on the Monday in the
15:36private secretar's coat and the king
15:38opened it at 6:00 that evening at the
15:40desk by the window with the proof of the
15:42book still face down where he had left
15:43it 4 days before. [music]
15:45Page one is typed in short. It sets out
15:47the claim exactly as the book makes it
15:49without adjectives. the aid's message,
15:52the Earl's refusal, the telephone call,
15:54the reference to Lord Mountbatton's
15:55funeral in 1979, the Earl's reply about
15:58the prince's age, the pause in the five
16:00words. Under them, two lines of context
16:03that the book doesn't supply. The flight
16:06to Paris on the 31st of August, the BAE
16:09146 landing at North Halt at 7 in the
16:12evening, the Royal Standard on the
16:14Coffin, and the walk-in Dharmmstat in
16:171937 by a 16-year-old prince who 60
16:21years later offered to walk beside his
16:23grandson. Nothing on page one argues. It
16:27lays the claim next to the record and
16:29leaves the space between them empty.
16:31Page two is the page that will end this
16:34story and it contains not one word
16:36written by the palace. It's two
16:38photocopies. The first is the Earl's own
16:41statement from September 1997, the week
16:44of the funeral. No clash with the
16:47palace. No clash with the prince. All
16:49arrangements up to and including the
16:52service agreed amicably between himself
16:55and the Lord Chamberlain's office. in
16:57the margin in pencil, a single question
16:59mark next to the word amicably. The
17:02second is the April 1996 letter to Diana
17:05made public in 2012. The weakest
17:08relationship of any of his sisters, the
17:10peripheral part of her life, and the
17:12rest, beside it, in the same pencil, one
17:15date, the 31st of August, 1997, 16
17:19months after the letter was sent. Page
17:21two doesn't say the Earl is lying about
17:23the telephone call. It says something
17:25much colder. It says that in the week he
17:27now describes as a confrontation over
17:29his sister's wishes, he told the country
17:32there had been no confrontation at all
17:34and that in the years he now describes
17:36as his sister's closest confidant, he
17:38had written to tell her he was a
17:39stranger. Page three is the one wrote
17:42the word held across and it's about
17:442026, not 1997. It's a timeline of one
17:48summer, the delivery of the manuscript
17:50to the publisher, the announcement of
17:52the Sussex return, the July visit to
17:54Althorp with the date, the length of the
17:56stay, and a note that the children were
17:58taken to the island, the publication
18:00date, the serialization date, the date
18:02of the Greenwich Gala, the date the
18:04Katzswald school term began, and at the
18:07bottom in the private secretar's hand,
18:09one sentence, the Duke's people have not
18:11denied that the book was discussed. Page
18:14three isn't evidence of anything. It's a
18:16calendar. But when you lay a calendar
18:18next to a claim, the calendar always
18:20wins because a calendar cannot be
18:22accused of having a poor memory. The
18:24emotional lever the Sussex side pulled
18:27this week was Diana's wish for her son
18:29spoken through her brother. The
18:31dossier's answer is that her brother
18:33didn't know her wishes by his own
18:34letter, didn't fight for them by his own
18:37statement, and that the son who now
18:38stands beside him spent July at his
18:40table. And this is the detail that
18:42stopped me cold when I first read it.
18:44It's not the five words and it's not the
18:46letter. It's the name of an office. In
18:49September 1997,
18:51Charles Spencer said that every
18:53arrangement for his sister's funeral had
18:55been agreed amicably between himself and
18:57the Lord Chamberlain's office. On the
18:598th of September 2026, 29 years later,
19:02almost to the day, the Lord
19:04Chamberlain's office wrote to every Lord
19:06Lieutenant in the United Kingdom to
19:08define the status of Charles Spencer's
19:10nephew. The same office, the same desk
19:13in the same corner of the same building.
19:15The office that the Earl says he worked
19:17with amicably in the worst week of his
19:20life is the office that this month told
19:22the country that Harry represents no
19:25one, uses no title, and is protected by
19:28no one but the police. And the Earl knew
19:30that when his book went to press,
19:32because the letter of the 8th of
19:34September was public a full week before
19:36the serialization, he had time to change
19:38a line. He changed nothing. Now sit with
19:41what that means [music] because it took
19:43me a while. The book asks you to believe
19:46that the Prince of Wales overruled the
19:48Earl in anger about the procession and
19:50that the Earl fought him for Diana's
19:52sake. The Earl's own statement from that
19:54week says the Lord Chamberlain's office
19:56and the Earl agreed, not the prince and
19:59the Earl. The office and the Earl, which
20:02means one of two things. Either the
20:04telephone call didn't decide anything
20:06because the decision was made by the
20:08office amicably with the Earl's
20:10agreement and the five words whatever
20:12was said changed nothing about the walk
20:15or the Earl told the country something
20:16in 1997 that he now says was untrue in
20:20which case the palace doesn't have to
20:22question his memory he's done it for
20:24them and Harry who has spent 5 years
20:26telling the world that no child should
20:28be asked to do what he did on the mall
20:30has attached his name to a book whose
20:32author agreed amic ably that he should.
20:34The nephew has made himself a witness
20:36for the man who signed off the walk.
20:39That's the detail, not what Charles
20:41said, what Spencer signed. And the
20:43palace hasn't released it and won't
20:45unless the Sussex side speaks again
20:47because Anne understood on the Sunday
20:50that a document of this kind does more
20:53damage in a folder than on a front page.
20:56Everybody in that family knows it exists
20:58and only one household knows it's aimed
21:00at them. And why would the crown ever
21:02spend a weapon it can keep by simply not
21:04using it? The Earl has a publication
21:07date. The palace has a drawer and the
21:09drawer has no date at all. Does any of
21:11that sound like a grieving brother
21:13finally telling the truth about his
21:14sister's wishes after 30 years of
21:16silence? Or does it sound like a man who
21:19agreed the funeral with the palace, told
21:21the country so, wrote his sister off in
21:24a letter the year before she died, and
21:26has now found the one nephew willing to
21:28sit at his table and call it loyalty.
21:31Now, watch the family one by one because
21:33the chain of reactions tells you exactly
21:36who was holding the folder and who was
21:37holding the phone. Anne didn't raise her
21:40voice. She didn't call a press
21:41conference. She picked up a pen, wrote
21:44one word across the top of a page at
21:46Clarence House on Sunday, and on
21:49Thursday stood on Canic Chase in
21:51Staferture at the inauguration of a
21:54restored German military cemetery
21:56honoring the graves of men this country
21:58fought. While her nephew's people were
22:01confirming to the newspapers that he had
22:02discussed the book against her brother
22:04at her late sister-in-law's grave, she
22:07didn't mention the book. She has never
22:09mentioned the book. Those who work with
22:11the Princess Royal know that her entire
22:13method is to find out what a man has
22:15already said in his own name and then
22:17let him meet it. The Earl met his 1997
22:20statement on Sunday. He doesn't know it
22:22yet. Unyielding doesn't begin to
22:24describe it. She has not spoken twice in
22:2750 years and this week she didn't need
22:30to speak once. William didn't fire a
22:32shot. He was on the aisle of but on
22:34Thursday with Catherine at a shinty club
22:36in Rothsay and then on a beach in the
22:39rain and Kensington Palace said nothing
22:42about the book nothing about Althorp and
22:44nothing about his brother but understand
22:46what the July visit did to him. His
22:48brother took his mother's grandchildren
22:50to her grave in the month the book about
22:53her funeral was being finished and
22:54didn't tell him. William walked behind
22:57that coffin at 15, one step ahead of
22:59Harry. And he has never once said in
23:01public what it did to him because he
23:03decided long ago that the walk was his
23:06to carry and not the countries. The book
23:08says he shouldn't have walked. His uncle
23:10says it, his brother says it. And the
23:13air picked litter out of the sand on but
23:15let the picture answer for him. The boy
23:17who kept walking doesn't need a chapter.
23:20Katherine has one rule about the
23:22children and it held this week as it has
23:25held through everything. They're not to
23:27hear it. George, Charlotte, and Lewis
23:29went to school on Thursday, and nothing
23:31about Althorp or the book or the peacock
23:34reached the house. Her strength isn't
23:36that she's above the fray. It's that she
23:38decides where the phrase stops and it
23:41stops at her front door. She stood in
23:43the rain on but in a waterproof, shook
23:46the hand she was there to shake and went
23:48home. And when the dossier's third page
23:51was read out to the Prince and Princess
23:52of Wales on Thursday night, the one line
23:55she asked about was the line about the
23:57children on the island at Althorp
24:00because the only thing in this whole
24:01story that she found unforgivable was
24:03that Diana's grandchildren had been used
24:05as the cover for a meeting about a book.
24:08Charles wanted to say nothing. And for
24:10four days, he said nothing. He read the
24:13proof on the 9th and put it face down.
24:15He sat in Clarence house on the Sunday
24:17for half an hour and then left his
24:20sister to it. And then on Thursday
24:22morning, two things happened in the
24:24space of 4 hours. His own household's
24:26briefing about Paris North Alton, the
24:29royal standard went out and his younger
24:31son's people confirmed allpurpose
24:36was gone. He told the private secretary
24:38at noon that page three was no longer
24:40held, that there would be no second
24:42statement from him personally, no
24:44message to the Cotswalds and that any
24:46call from that direction was to be
24:48logged. Then he went in to talk about
24:50artificial intelligence and didn't come
24:52out for 3 hours unyielding. He had sided
24:55with Anne and when Charles sides with
24:57Anne, he doesn't go back. Camila asked
25:00what it would cost. She asked on Sunday
25:02whether releasing the 1997 statement
25:05would put the oil on every channel for a
25:07month and whether that was a price worth
25:09paying to be proved right. And she asked
25:12on Thursday whether the Sussex's German
25:15trip touched a budget the household
25:17controlled. Both were the right
25:18questions and neither was about Diana.
25:21The Queen has never pretended to be
25:23sentimental about the Princess of Wales
25:25and she wasn't this week. She looked at
25:27a folder of documents the way she looks
25:29at everything as a bill with somebody's
25:32name on it and made sure the name wasn't
25:34hers. When Anne said held, Camila said
25:37fine, and that was the last word she
25:39spoke on the subject. Edward and Sophie
25:41carried the message as they always do.
25:43Sophie was on the Zambzi on Thursday,
25:466,000 m from Greenwich, being
25:49photographed doing the crown's work in a
25:51country the Sussexes will not be
25:53visiting on the crown's behalf. Edward
25:55stayed at Bagshot Park, but it was
25:57Edward's office that received a note
25:59from the Cotswwells on Wednesday night
26:01asking whether the family intended to
26:02say anything further. And it was
26:04Edward's office that sent back one word,
26:07which was no. And it was Edward on the
26:09Thursday evening who rang his sister to
26:11confirm that the Prince and Princess of
26:12Wales had seen page three. The loyal
26:15guardians of that family don't make
26:17decisions. They make sure decisions
26:19arrive. Megan ran damage control from
26:21the Cottswolves and this week the damage
26:24was of her own making. The confirmation
26:26on Thursday that Harry had known and had
26:28discussed the book at all didn't leak.
26:31It was given because the plan was to get
26:33ahead of the story, admit the knowledge,
26:35deny the involvement, frame July as a
26:38family visit to a grave. It's the kind
26:40of move that works on a magazine and
26:42fails on an institution because the
26:44institution doesn't care whether Harry
26:47read the book. It cares that he sat at
26:49the table. By Friday morning, the
26:51statement that was ready in Diana's name
26:54on children, grief, and the right to
26:56tell a family story was still on scent
26:58because sending it now would trip page
27:01two. And somebody in that house had
27:03finally worked out what page two was.
27:05Harry walked into Greenwich alone on
27:07Thursday night in black tie with his
27:10grandmother's honor around his neck, and
27:12he gave a good speech about spirit to a
27:14room that deserved one. And by the time
27:17he sat down, his own people had made him
27:19a witness in his uncle's book. His
27:21father's household had put the royal
27:23standard on the record, and a former aid
27:25had told the country that the prince had
27:27protected his mother's memory in 2017
27:29while Harry was still calling him
27:31distant. He came back to Britain to be
27:34present. He has been present at exactly
27:36one thing this month, and it was his
27:38uncle's table in July. [music] His
27:40damage control is now a list of calls,
27:43and we'll get to them. But the son, who
27:45has spent six fully years saying the
27:47family never tells the truth, has just
27:49discovered what happens when the family
27:51produces the truth in his uncle's
27:53handwriting. Earl Spencer posted a
27:55peacock, a photograph of a male peacock
27:58on the lawn at Al Thorp on the afternoon
28:00the palace answered him, and everybody
28:02who saw it understood the joke. And
28:05nobody at Clarence House laughed because
28:08the archavist had already found the 1997
28:11statement, and the joke was on the wrong
28:13man. He's 62. He gave the most famous
28:16eulogy of the century, six feet from the
28:18family he was condemning. And he wrote
28:20to his sister 16 months before she died
28:23to tell her he was a stranger. He has
28:25built a book on a memory and the palace
28:27has built a folder on his own words. And
28:30the folder is in a drawer and he doesn't
28:32know which day it comes out. That's not
28:34a feud. That's a wait. Andrew read the
28:37letter of the 8th of September on the
28:38Sandringham estate and knew what it was
28:41because he has had one of his own. A man
28:44stripped of his titles last autumn
28:46understands what the Lord Chamberlain's
28:48office does when it stops speaking to
28:50you and starts writing about you. He
28:51wasn't asked about the dossier. He
28:54wasn't told, but he knows the drawer
28:56it's in because his own file is in the
28:57one beneath it. And this week he watched
29:00the household prepare the same silence
29:02page by page for the nephew who used to
29:05call him the family's problem. [music]
29:07And then the calls. Thursday half 9 in
29:10the morning before his own people had
29:12even finished confirming Althorp.
29:15Harry's first call went to Balmoral
29:17where the king was due after Dumprey's
29:19house. And it went through the
29:21switchboard the way every call from that
29:23side has gone since 2020. logged, timed,
29:27passed to the private secretary. Charles
29:30didn't take the call. The second went to
29:32Bagshot Park at 11:00 and Edward's
29:34office said the Duke of Edinburgh was
29:36not available and would not be available
29:38that day. The third at 4 in the
29:40afternoon went through an intermediary
29:42to Kensington Palace with a request that
29:45the brothers speak before the weekend
29:47about the children, about all Thorp,
29:50about a misunderstanding. Kensington
29:52Palace replied that the Prince of Wales
29:55was in Scotland with his family. Three
29:57calls, three doors. And the thing about
29:59the gates of that family is that they
30:01don't just close, they lock. And this
30:04week they locked with the sound of a
30:06folder being shut. So the Sussex side
30:08reached for the only lever it has ever
30:10trusted. Honestly, you could have set
30:12your watch by it. By Friday morning, a
30:15foundation statement was drafted in
30:17Diana's name about children and grief
30:19and a family's right to tell its own
30:21story. And an appeal went to the king
30:24through the same intermediary
30:26acknowledge what the Earl had written
30:28about the boys in the walk. Acknowledged
30:30that their mother would not have wanted
30:32it, and the Duke would say nothing
30:34further. He was asking his father to
30:36confirm the one claim in the book that
30:38his father's own household had just
30:40spent Thursday morning dismantling with
30:43a flight log and a flag. And he was
30:45asking it on the day page three stopped
30:47being held. There was never going to be
30:49an answer. The answer had been assembled
30:52on Sunday and it was two photocopies
30:54long. And here's where Harry's own move
30:57turned on him in a place the Cotswwells
30:59never checked. Not the headlines, the
31:02record. The moment his people confirmed
31:04that he had discussed the book at
31:05Althorp, he stopped being a private
31:08citizen who happened to be related to
31:10the author and became in the household's
31:13language a participant. Participants
31:15don't get the benefit of the doubt on
31:17security because the committee that
31:19decides those things looks at public
31:20profile and a duke who has attached
31:23himself to a book that puts words in the
31:25sovereign's mouth has changed his
31:27profile in a way no barristister can
31:29argue back. The committee now has a file
31:31with Greenwich in it, all Thorp in it, a
31:34foundation statement in draft, and a
31:36letter from the Lord Chamberlain
31:37reminding every police force in the
31:39country where requests for public money
31:41go. The Sussex side wanted the security
31:44question reopened. It has been reopened
31:47in the one direction they never wanted.
31:50And there's the matter of the children
31:52because that's where page three cuts
31:54deepest. Archie and Liet were taken to
31:56the island at Al Thorp in July and the
31:59household has that date and it now sits
32:02next to the manuscript's delivery date.
32:04And nobody in that family will ever say
32:07out loud what they think of a
32:08grandmother's grave being used as the
32:10setting for a conversation about a book
32:13against a grandfather. They don't need
32:14to. The children's titles come from the
32:17letters patent of 1917 and nobody has
32:20moved to touch them. But what those
32:21titles mean for two children of a
32:24private citizen at a school in the
32:26Cotswalds, who protects them, who pays,
32:29what they're entitled to, is no longer a
32:31question the Sussex has asked the
32:33palace. It's a question the palace can
32:36now ask them with a calendar in its
32:38hand. That's the jurisdiction Harry
32:40surrendered at his uncle's table. He
32:42came home to be closer to the
32:44institution, and by Friday, the
32:46institution had every reason it needed
32:47to keep him precisely where the letter
32:49of the 8th of September put him. Outside
32:52the gate, no title in use, no budget,
32:54and a folder with his July in it. The
32:57stone wall wasn't built this week. It
32:58was built in 1997 by the Earl himself
33:02when he told the country the funeral had
33:03been agreed amicably. Harry has simply
33:06walked up to it in black tie and asked
33:08his uncle to help him climb it. When you
33:09step back and look at the entire chain
33:11of events, what you actually see is a
33:14memoir that was answered before it was
33:16published by the man who wrote it and a
33:19nephew who walked into the middle of
33:20that answer without ever reading either
33:23page. And you realize this was never
33:26just about a phone call. This was about
33:28the fundamental nature of the modern
33:30British monarchy, which doesn't defend
33:32itself with anger or with interviews or
33:34with books of its own. It defends itself
33:37with the record. And the record is
33:39longer than anyone's grievance. Look at
33:41the two sides honestly. On one side, a
33:44princess royal who declined titles for
33:46Peter and Zara in 1977 so that her
33:49children could be ordinary who has never
33:52written a book or given an interview and
33:54who spent Thursday at a cemetery for
33:56former enemies on Canic Chase while her
33:59nephew's people confirmed Althorp. On
34:02the same side, a queen who in April 2021
34:05sat entirely alone in a pew at St.
34:07George's chapel at her husband's funeral
34:10masked because the rules were the rules
34:12and she was not above them and who asked
34:15nobody to notice and uh a prince of
34:18Wales who at 15 walked down the mall one
34:20step ahead of his brother and who at 44
34:23picked litter off a beach on but in the
34:25rain on the day the country was told he
34:27should never have taken that first step
34:29and said nothing because he decided long
34:32ago that the walk was his and not a
34:33headlines. That is duty. It doesn't
34:36invoke anyone. It walks and it sits and
34:39it files. On the other side, a brother
34:41who wrote his sister off in April 1996
34:44and agreed her funeral amicably in
34:47September 1997 and who now sells a
34:50version of both in which he was her
34:51champion. A strategist in the Kwalds who
34:54put out the All Thorp confirmation to
34:57get ahead of a story and instead tripped
35:00a wire she didn't know was there. and a
35:02son who has spent six full years making
35:05his mother's name the argument for every
35:07choice he has made and who this summer
35:09took her grandchildren to her grave to
35:12discuss a book against her husband. All
35:14three invoked Diana. Not one of them
35:17asked what she would have made of it.
35:19And the one document in this whole
35:21affair that tells you what she and her
35:24brother actually were to each other in
35:26the last year of her life is the letter
35:28he wrote her, which is now page two of a
35:30folder at Clarence House. Because here's
35:32the reinterpretation nobody in that
35:34house in the Cotswwells wants to hear.
35:36Diana's legacy isn't the argument about
35:38whether the boys should have walked.
35:40It's the boys and what each of them
35:43became. One of them turned the walk into
35:45a wound he has carried in public for 5
35:48years and handed to his uncle to carry
35:50this week. The other kept walking kept
35:52walking for 29 years into a marriage
35:55that is held into three children who
35:57have never been a headline into a shinty
36:00club in Rothsay on a wet Thursday in
36:02September. And the boy who walked behind
36:04his mother's coffin didn't need his
36:06uncle to tell him what it cost. He knows
36:08he has decided that the cost is his. And
36:11that's the whole difference between the
36:12heir and the man who said it all thor in
36:15July. And Charles, who began the week
36:17wanting to say nothing, ended at having
36:19said one sentence and holding two pages
36:21he didn't need to say it all. He didn't
36:23take the call. He didn't soften. He let
36:26his sister check the record. He let his
36:28household put Paris and Northol and the
36:31flag on the table. And when his son's
36:33people confirmed all Thorp, he didn't
36:35answer them because there was nothing
36:36left to answer. Anne assembled it.
36:39Charles held it. William lived it. And
36:42Harry, who came home to be closer to all
36:44three, has discovered that the crown's
36:46memory is not a thing you can argue with
36:48because the crown didn't write it. His
36:50uncle did. And somewhere in a drawer at
36:52Clarence House tonight, there are two
36:54photocopies in a buff folder that the
36:57Earl wrote in his own name and the
36:58nephew never read, waiting for the day
37:00one of them speaks again. And neither
37:02man has yet asked himself which of

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